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Cherokee Hills, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gaffney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29341. The Survey maps it on the Gaffney quadrangle.

Cherokee Hills within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 934 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined99
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Cherokee Hills: 30 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, REE, Tin, Gold, Tin, Corundum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Camp Creek Monazite Placer S TributaryREE, Thorium, Tin, Gold, CorundumPast Producer1910, 1911
Northern Trib Cherokee Creek Monazite PlacerThorium, REE, Corundum, Gold, TinUnknown1910, 1911
Thicketty Creek Monazite Placer Eastern TributaryThorium, REE, Tin, Corundum, GoldUnknown1910, 1911
Unnamed Gneiss Quarry Gl-107StoneUnknown1900
Unnamed Mica Prospect Gl - 052MicaUnknown1931
Upper Cole Creek Monazite PlacerThorium, REE, Gold, Corundum, TinUnknown1910, 1911
Cleveland County DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cleveland County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Headwater Cole Creek Monazite PlacerThorium, REE, Gold, Tin, CorundumUnknown1910, 1911
Headwater Irene Creek Monazite PlacerThorium, REE, Gold, Tin, CorundumUnknown1910, 1911

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Garden Park0.8 miles16
Grassy Pond2.0 miles18
Northgate2.1 miles16
Buford Heights2.6 miles16
Maud2.7 miles18
Rutledge Estates2.7 miles16
Goforth Cross Road (historical)2.7 miles18
Pleasant Meadows2.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247904. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.